Preface : the red blanket -- And the weak suffer what they must -- An indecent proposal --Troubled pilgrims -- Trojan horse -- The one that got away -- The reverse alchemists -- Back to the future -- Europe's crisis, America's future -- Afterword : from dissonance to harmony

The author explodes the myth that financialization, ineffectual regulation of banks, greed and globalization were the root causes of the global economic crisis. Rather, they are symptoms of a much deeper malaise which can be traced all the way back to the Great Crash of 1929, then on through to...